Manufacture of barrels for white alcoholic liquors



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HENRY DE BUS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

MANUFACTURE OF BARRELS FUR WHBTE ALCOHOUC LEQUORS.

S?ECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,044, dated March 30, 1880.

' Application filed October '7, 1878.

1'0 allwhom it may concern:

3c it known that l, HENRYDE BUs, of Gin cinnati, in the county of Hamilton mid State of Ohio, have invented it certain new and useful 5 Improvement in the Art of Munufuctur ing Cooper-age or Barrels for White Alcoholic Liquors, of which the following ise full, clear-r, and exact description.

New barrels or cztsks es heretofore manir fuctured could not be used with safety for white liquors, such his gin white whisky, or spirits, because such liquors were liable to be discolored by such new czisks, and to suffer in value in consequence. The discoloration was caused either by the natural coloring-mutter in the wood of the cusk, or by the charred portions of the stoves of 2b cask subjected to the ordinary firing process in its nizuiufacture. Unsuccessful attempts have been made to remove these coloring-mzittcrs from fired barrels by steaming them and subsequently subject ing them to on alum-wash. Such steaming and washing does not produce the desired eifect'on fired barrels not charred, for it appears that the firing, while it has a tendency to draw the coloringhm-tters in the wood to the surfuce,in a manner crystallizes such color in g-metters, so that such steaming and Washing can efl'ectno removal thereof. In consequence of these objections to the use of new cesks, it has been customary to use stone jars, gloss packages, and the like for the storage and transportation of these white liquors, and sometimes old barrels are used \vhich'had previously contained an interior liquor.

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The alum-wash may be intule by dissolving alum in hot water, nmkingqi comparutitely week solution. The alum-wash will dissolve and remove the remaining coloring-matters from the interior of the cash. The cask may finally be rinsed with clear water, either hot or cold.

I am aware that in the coopers urt steaming preparatory to or in the not of trussing has been practiced, and hence do not claim that; but

What i do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The mode, substmitiully us before set forth, of removing coloring-nm-tters from the stares of wooden oasks in the course of manufacturing such cesks, which mode consists of the following two essential steps, viz: steaming the stoves preparatory to trussing, (thereby tickling, liriiirz; of the time) and limiting the Y l ll l l i i ll ll lll l (H. lllll lllllllllllllll llll l llll ll llllll l' l lll l 

